ILL-FATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-fated mean? 

• ILL-FATED (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-FATED has 1 sense:

1. marked by or promising bad fortune

  Familiarity information: ILL-FATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-FATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by or promising bad fortune

Synonyms:

doomed; ill-fated; ill-omened; ill-starred; unlucky

Context example:

the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons

Similar:

unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)

 Context examples 

I entered the cabin where lay the remains of my ill-fated and admirable friend.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was an awesome thing to sleep in that ill-fated camp; and yet it was even more unnerving to do so in the jungle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a strength I had not possessed a few months before, on the day I said good-bye to Charley Furuseth and started for San Francisco on the ill-fated Martinez.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I had not the least belief, in the outset of this story, that the unknown was anything but a delusion of Mr. Dick's, and one of the line of that ill-fated Prince who occasioned him so much difficulty; but after some reflection I began to entertain the question whether an attempt, or threat of an attempt, might have been twice made to take poor Mr. Dick himself from under my aunt's protection, and whether my aunt, the strength of whose kind feeling towards him I knew from herself, might have been induced to pay a price for his peace and quiet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Its long, damp passages, its narrow cells and ruined chapel, were to be within her daily reach, and she could not entirely subdue the hope of some traditional legends, some awful memorials of an injured and ill-fated nun.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Poor simple lad! he had not learned yet that what men are and what men profess to be are very wide asunder, and that the Knights of St. John, having come into large part of the riches of the ill-fated Templars, were very much too comfortable to think of exchanging their palace for a tent, or the cellars of England for the thirsty deserts of Syria.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From that night nothing has been seen of the three murderers by the police, and it is surmised at Scotland Yard that they were among the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Norah Creina, which was lost some years ago with all hands upon the Portuguese coast, some leagues to the north of Oporto.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once only, when she had been grieving over the last ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb, bitterly lamenting that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as if wholly overcome—"Don't talk of it, don't talk of it," he cried.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Here was the point, and this the means by which Maple White and his ill-fated comrade had made their ascent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)